Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

cabsandy - see PM :)

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

For the OP, I would also recommend the Newsgroup approach. I had a similar problem where my traffic was directed through a different route, leading to a loss of speed.

After a bit of to and fro with Virgin the problem was fixed via the Newsgroup and I've had no problems since then (this was around Christmas). It's also worth going the Newsgroup approach just in case someone else has reported your problem as well.

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

read the first line...10 meg rubbish 20 meg rubbish and the op stays and gets 50meg!! either the op is not telling the truth or they are the joke if a service is not working why keep paying a premium price for the top product!! :erm:

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

Longo,
Just read your post over on newsgroup support, quote from Virgin Media Technical Support:
`Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee a connection suitable for gaming.'

:LOL: Why do they include it in all the product info then for 50Meg ` A dream for online multiplay games' and `.. playing over a fibre optic connection will improve your reaction times (due to better latency and ping), so you'll find your online games more responsive than ever before.'

What are your round trip results like to the games servers you play on, are they stable or erratic?

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

eratic as fook :P

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

As a residential product there are no service guarantees. Is 50Mb better for gaming? It's on less trafficked infrastructure, has greater bandwidth, and is ostensibly more reliable, so yes, but is it ideal? No. Is it totally proof against failure? Again, no. The thing to remember is that advertising copy (despite the work of the ASA) holds only so much weight. Caveat lector, caveat emptor.

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

this is crazy guys..

Its 9ish at night and i am on 50meg directly connected to the modem and i get this...

and when i try t get help on newsgroups, they just keep making excuses instead of trying to help me.. this is really ****ing me off when i pay £51 a month
Tracing route to dustworld.net [193.238.84.199]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 5 ms 5 ms 19 ms 10.102.248.1
3 5 ms 8 ms 15 ms osr01newy-ge218.network.virginmedia.net [80.0.14
5.133]
4 7 ms 18 ms 35 ms osr02gate-tenge72.network.virginmedia.net [62.30
.245.41]
5 17 ms 8 ms 15 ms gate-t3core-1b-ge-010-0.network.virginmedia.net
[80.0.144.129]
6 35 ms 57 ms 15 ms man-bb-b-as2-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.
175.169]
7 27 ms 36 ms 45 ms nth-bb-a-so-220-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.1
05.64.21]
8 34 ms 15 ms 25 ms nth-bb-b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.1
85.118]
9 26 ms 28 ms 19 ms tele-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.
184.2]
10 16 ms 17 ms 156 ms ae0-1234.rt2.the.uk.goscomb.net [195.66.224.226]

11 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms ge-0-0-479.rt0.iph.uk.goscomb.net [77.75.109.98]

12 49 ms 24 ms 34 ms online.dustworld.net [193.238.84.199]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

Try a pathping. Remember that the time it takes for a component on the network to respond (high pings) may not be slowness to and from it, but the fact that ping requests are prioritised less than actual data going through the connection. Using pathping means more will hit it, and you'll get a better mean result.

That said, i notice the biggest jump in times in your tracert is between iph.uk.goscomb.net (off the VM network) and your target address. That would suggest the issue is between those two points. Once the packet has left the VM network their influence over it is minimal.

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

its not goscomb though because they checked it out for me, they actually looked into my enquirey unlike VM. Goscomb are probably the UK's biggest tier 1/2 provider.

Notice the high ping spikes in the VM network though thats the problem, it doesnt matter what server i ping/try its still a problem so its a problem with VM. I am sure of it

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

Just because one ping in a tracert spikes doesn't necessarily mean there's a problem. The ping can be high because the unit is busy. That's why I'm recommending you try a pathping.

Also, are you directly connected to the modem? I know you've said that you have, but that tracert runs through 192.168.1.1, which is a Netgear Router.

Using tools.virginmedia.com I can ping your 10.*.*.* IP address without incident. That's a ping originating within the VM network. The odds of oversubscription are pretty slender since you're on 50Mb, so the possible causes are: signal, which I think we can discount because you're seeing slow speeds rather than packet loss; routing, which is not entirely under VM's control; DNS delay; misinterpretation of test results.

You've been told that equipment within the network is often busy routing data rather than responding to ping requests, and that can produce high spikes in the results. You'll notice that the spikes within the network are higher than the ping times to your target site. If network routing equipment responded to ping requests or tracert requests as a first priority that would negatively affect everybody's speeds, so it's not going to do that. That's one reason why you could be seeing those spikes. This is why I would recommend using the pathping command. It gives us more details to try and help you.

Finally, while it may not matter what server you ping, the fact that you're going through VM is not the only common factor. Your DNS, PC, router, they are all still the same, and any of those could be having an influence. It's bad practise to start with a solution and then find evidence to support it.

So, again, try a pathping. I'd also recommend posting your modem signal levels, though if you're the newsgroup poster I think you are someone has had a look at those for you. Could you use ipconfig/all in the command prompt and tell us your DNS entries?

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

I'm seeing no problems from my connection, when I ping the server. I will try later on peak time.

Re: Virgin Media is a Joke, please help 50meg
 

Think OP has some success - tech support are arranging a principal engineer to come to his place as there are signal issues, woot!